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Why has one of tech’s most innovative industries stopped innovating?
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If you look back over the past 10 years or so of Internet and technology life, there’s one thing that’s incredibly difficult to dispute — we owe a lot of credit to the porn industry for innovation. You’ve probably heard the argument before, but it bears repeating. Technologies like video...
Is Now the Time to Launch Your Social Startup?
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Fourth in a five-part series. Right now you can use a service like Ning or GROU.PS to create your own social network. You can develop and launch a customized platform for little money. In short, you can be the next Mark Zuckerberg. Or maybe not. "Whether or not a 'social media bubble' becomes...
After Troubled Period, Video Games Retailer Game Group Goes Bankrupt In The UK
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It’s been on the rocks for months now, but now international video game retailer Game Group looks like it is finally sinking: today the company announced that it is formally entering administration — another sign of the woes hitting more traditional parts of the gaming world as people turn to...
The Top Tech News (and Parties) From SXSW Music
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As tech enthusiasts and entrepreneurs nursed their hangovers and headed home after SXSW Interactive, there were still newsworthy launches, panels, and campaigns going on at SXSW Music. MOG hinted at its future revenue streams, Sean Parker predicted iTunes’ downfall, and products launched from Rap Genius, Monstro, and others. The second half of SXSW...
Facebook Offers enjoys a Groupon moment, sends 3m users to Australian deal offering 50 vouchers
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Facebook’s Offers service may only be a couple of months old (and only available to select number of partners) but the sheer size of the social network has proved difficult for one small business owner, with 3 million people engaging with an accommodation deal that offered just 50 vouchers. The deal was...
Competition is king: why Nokia and Microsoft are the perfect match
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Stop. Rewind 15 months. Play. Stephen Elop sits in a Nokia boardroom, surrounded by a multinational group of execs sweating beads of anxiety. It's not exactly Downfall, but it's close. The freshman Canadian CEO is looking for answers, but all around him he finds sternly vacant faces and overdue...
Consumer Reports: Forget what we said before, new iPad is the best we’ve ever seen
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Consumer Reports took a beating for measuring the new iPads heat and charging non-issues under intense loads. But when it comes down to it, they still overwhelmingly recommend Apple’s new device. The high-resolution screen of the new iPad establishes a new benchmark in excellence, providing the best rendering of detail and color...
From Apple’s new iPad to Zeebox, here’s the week’s media news in review
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From a tech perspective, there’s little doubt that the launch of the new iPad was the biggest news this week. Considering how important tablets have become for newspapers, it is obviously important for the media as well. Yet, this is only one of the many things that have happened in...
Why London's Police Just Set a Horrifying Precedent on Mobile Privacy
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London's Metropolitan Police recently started using machines that allow law enforcement to tap into any mobile device and download call registers, photographs, videos, SMS, email and even social networking data in under 20 minutes. Even more shocking, the information they collect will remain in the police's possession long after the...
Anonymous hacks hundreds of Web sites in China
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The online hacktivist group defaces government and commercial sites with a message predicting the downfall of the Chinese government, although no central government sites appear to have been compromised. [Read more]...
Yahoo CEO's Downfall
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How the error in former Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson's bio led to his resignation....
Spotify, iTunes Expansion Helping WMG Hit Digital Music Milestones
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Recent roll-outs to new countries of download and streaming services helped Michael Bublé‘s Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) offset physical declines with digital growth in its October-to-December Q3. —In recorded music (ie. sales of tracks to users), digital revenue grew 15 percent after iTunes’ expansion to 12 new European...
Gaopeng, Groupon’s Flagging Effort in China, May Be Headed For A Merger with FTuan
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This post is contributed by Ben Jiang, editor of TechNode, a bilingual blog based in China. Gaopeng, a joint venture between Groupon and Tencent, may be headed for a merger by the end of next month with FTuan, according to reports from local Chinese news agencies. Notably, FTuan is a...
Netflix Adds Warner Bros. Exec As Its New Chief Marketing Officer
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Netflix announced that it has named former Warner Bros. executive Kelly Bennett as its chief marketing officer, six months after it lost its last longtime marketing head Leslie Kilgore. After 12 years on the job, Kilgore stepped down from the position in January. The resignation occurred after Netflix received an...
Google+ beats out Facebook in annual ACSI Consumer satisfaction score
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As first noted by Marketing Land’s Danny Sullivan, Google+, in its debut year, came out on top among the highest scores for social media sites in the annual American Customer Satisfaction Index. The downfall for Facebook, according to the report, is largely due to the introduction of Timeline, advertisements,...
Android fragmentation gets visualized, again
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Android’s rise to the top of the mobile operating system food chain as measured by device proliferation has been remarkably swift, but not without its drawbacks. Due to the nature of Google’s open source OS and its aggressive strategy, smartphone vendors that make use of the platform have each...
Nokia’s debuts Nokia Reaction Bluetooth headset, with ear detection, noise reduction and acoustic design
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Nokia has launched a ‘Nokia Reaction’, a slick Bluetooth headset that includes three in-built microphones, auto call pick-up and a range of other acoustic features. There’s no official announcement of the product just yet, but the Finnish company has posted a video that provides a break-down of its features and...
Nokia’s debuts Nokia Reaction Bluetooth headset, with ear detection, noise reduction and acoustic design
It’s Time to Stop Talking About the Death of Big Media
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Last week one of our guest writers, Francisco Dao, published a post entitled “What Happens After We Kill Big Media?” In it, he breezily surmised that big media’s “downfall is inevitable” and proceeded to grieve for its demise. “The Internet will ultimately win,” Dao said, “and we can take solace in...
Counting Crows Distribute Songs And More Via BitTorrent
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Five years ago, we wrote about a fascinating writeup by the keyboard player for the band The Counting Crows, in which he discussed his views on piracy and the music industry. While we didn't fully agree with what he was saying, his viewpoint was definitely worth reading. He was worried...
Judgment is not your usual Gears of War
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Epic / People Can Fly Even before anyone had a chance to play Gears of War: Judgment, Epic Games Design Director Cliff Bleszinski was already playing with fans' expectations for the game. When the company first revealed the game's existence a few weeks ago, through a shaded Game Informer...
Tailoring your mobile strategy to the "new" Millenials
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Millennials, those Americans age 18 to 34, had fondly (wink) been given the reputation of the “entitlement” generation. They grew up during prosperous economic times when their Boomer parents had the funds to purchase the latest and greatest innovations retailers had to offer, from clothes to gadgets to automobiles....
Weak passwords still the downfall of enterprise security
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A recent data breach that exposed the Social Security numbers of more than 255,000 people in Utah has once again highlighted the longstanding but often underestimated risks posed to organizations by weak and default passwords....
Chris Dixon On The Tech "Bubble"
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Chris Dixon On The Tech "Bubble": Every few months, a big story comes out proclaiming that we’re in another bubble. It reminds me of the “downfall of Apple” nonsense — everyone wants to be the first to correctly “call” what is inevitable (that Apple will fall at some point, as all...
Anti-Misleading Talk Also Misleads
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Anti-Misleading Talk Also Misleads: Here's the thing. Everyone seems to want to rush to point out that Microsoft's first quarterly loss was misleading because of a one-time $6.2 billion write-down. No shit. I mean, does anyone think anyone else really doesn't understand that? But that anti-misleading talk is also misleading,...
The 7 deadly sins of software development
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Companies today are often so focused on growth that they commit one (or several) software development sins. As a developer at RightScale, a SaaS cloud management solution, I have borne witness to, and at times even been guilty of, the following temptations. 1. Lust Getting other people to lust after...
This jQuery plugin allows you to turn any HTML element into a kitten
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Adorable jQuery plugins aren’t exactly my beat, but you know what? It’s friday and high time you geeky developers had some fun. As for everyone else, there’s kittens involved, so you’re welcome to stay too. This is a safe place. Placekitten is a jQuery plugin that allows you to turn...
And Now, Finally, We'll Get The Truth About The New iPad--What Do Normal Folks Think?
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The new iPad went on sale on Friday. As usual, Apple zealots waited in lines at Apple Stores for days to get one, even though Apple now distributes gadgets through lots of other retailers (some of which had no lines at all for the iPad). And, as usual, Apple...
WHITNEY TILSON: These Three Companies Are In 'Full Scale Collapse' And Are Never Going To Recover (RIMM, NOK, FSLR)
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Whitney Tilson was just on CNBC talking about how investing in BP — and other stocks in free fall — are great value buys. But Tilson said that he would avoid three companies that have been selling off sharply this week because he doesn't see a cap to their downfall....
WHITNEY TILSON: These Three Companies Are In 'Full Scale Collapse' And Are Never Going To Recover (RIMM, NOK, FSLR)
Cannibalization of Mac OS X by iOS—does Apple even care?
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iOS is beginning to take over Mac OS X in Web traffic share for at least one online ad firm. In a new report published on Friday, Chitika said that Apple's record phone and tablet sales have propelled iOS to surpass Mac OS X when it comes to Web...
Microsoft Was Destroyed By Its 'Stack Review' Process, According To New Vanity Fair Expose (MSFT)
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Vanity Fair has a big story on Microsoft this month written by investigative reporter Kurt Eichenwald. The full story isn't online yet, just a little promotional teaser. Unlike much of the press Microsoft has been getting lately, this story doesn't look all that positive. The headline of the teaser is,...
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